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New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 12 2015, @04:05AM   
from the prosecutors-want-access-to-everything dept.

The New York Times features a joint (and very one sided) opinion piece by prosecutors from Manhattan, Paris, London and Spain, in which they decry the default use by Apple and Google of full disk encryption in their latest smartphone OSes. They talk about the murder scene of a father of six, where an iPhone 6 and a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge were found.

An Illinois state judge issued a warrant ordering Apple and Google to unlock the phones and share with authorities any data therein that could potentially solve the murder. Apple and Google replied, in essence, that they could not — because they did not know the user's passcode. The homicide remains unsolved. The killer remains at large.

Except, there is no proof that having such a backdoor would conclusively allow them to solve the case and wouldn't require actual police work.

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• Re:Hemh. (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday August 12 2015, @11:57PM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday August 12 2015, @11:57PM (#222007) Homepage

  It sounds like you are unable to distinguish "X" from "X metropolitan area". "X metropolitan area" is often way bigger than X, and includes towns and cities which are not X. In the US, it may even include towns and cities which aren't even in the same state as X. In Europe and the US there are even examples of metropolitan areas which span national boundaries.

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